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Burgess, Edward Sandford (1855–1928) papers

 Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0039

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a notebook, labeled as "Vol. II", containing handwritten notes for lectures on botany. There are also newspaper clippings and articles concerning various plants.

Dates

  • Creation: 1889–1895, n.d.

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Biographical / Historical

Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928) taught botany at Central High School in Washington, D.C. (1882–1895), Martha's Vineyard Summer Institute (1881–1895), Johns Hopkins University (1885) and Hunter College (1895–1925). Burgess specialized in asters, discovering 84 species. He contributed the botanical descriptions of asters to Nathaniel Lord Britton (1859–1934) and Addison Brown (1830–1913), An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States (New York, 1896–1898, vol. 3) and to John Kunkel Small (1869–1938), Flora of the Southeastern United States (New York, 1903).

Extent

.2 Linear Feet (2 file folders)

Separated Materials

One clipping was removed from this file in 1979 and transferred to John Torrey’s biographical file.

Title
Guide to the Edward Sandford Burgess (1855–1928) papers
Author
Nancy L. Janda
Date
2022
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Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation Archives Repository

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